Possible Finance

HQ
Seattle
140 Total Employees
Year Founded: 2017

Possible Finance Leadership & Management

Updated on September 05, 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

Organizational Clarity

Possible Finance leaders communicate goals and expectations through all-hands meetings, manager cascades, and weekly updates, keeping teams informed and aligned. Posted OKRs, written role expectations, and transparent planning docs make priorities visible across the organization.

Twice a year, this comes to life at Possipalooza: our week-long global gathering that brings employees together from around the globe to reflect on progress, launch new initiatives, and collaborate in person. In January 2026, we added a company-wide Hackathon to the traditional goal-setting sessions, encouraging cross-group teams to prototype ideas that fed directly into the year's priorities. Our upcoming Possipalooza features an all-employee AI showcase, reinforcing our corporate goal to build AI into everything we do.

This rhythm of clear communication, hands-on collaboration, and shared innovation helps employees feel confident about priorities, understand how their work fits in, and stay aligned with company goals. And, on top of everything else, it's an extremely fun week!

Possible Finance Employee Perspectives

I want engineers to understand why they’re being asked to do something. That context leads to better decisions at the keyboard. I believe most management failures are really failures of expectation-setting, so I prioritize clarity and when something goes sideways, I look at my own clarity first before anything else. And I want an organization full of people driving change: improving themselves, their teams and our systems, where everything is an experiment and we’re always willing to try.

Tracie Hlavka
Tracie Hlavka , Vice President, Software Engineering

What People Are Saying About Possible Finance

  • Strategic Vision & Planning: Leadership consistently ties a clear mission—helping customers unlock economic mobility as a Public Benefit Corporation—to concrete near‑term priorities such as profitability, revenue run rate, state expansion, and credit‑building features. Posts detailing instant disbursements and credit-building explain the how behind the strategy and reflect CEO‑articulated operating values.
  • Open & Transparent Communication: Leaders maintain visible, multi‑channel communication through all‑hands, manager cascades, weekly updates, a public CEO Hot Seat, and posted OKRs with transparent planning documents. CEO-authored values and dated milestones further clarify decisions and expectations.
  • Purposeful Goal Setting: Teams operate on a six‑month OKR cadence that emphasizes problems to solve, not projects to build, making priorities and role expectations explicit. Company‑wide planning rituals—such as hackathons tied to yearly priorities and an AI showcase—align execution with stated goals.

Possible Finance's Benefits

Defined values and mission statements

Six core values guide how we work: Mission-Driven, Trust as the Foundation, To Lead is to Serve, Act with Ownership, Scientific Approach, and Expectations of Excellence.

Implements team-based strategic planning

Open office floor plan to encourage communication and collaboration

Prioritizes real-world impact of work in decision-making processes

Uses an OKR operational model to clearly define goals and priorities

Utilizes an open door policy that encourages accessibility